Brennan MacDonald, Katie
Simpson. CBC News. August 1, 2019
Donald Trump's special
representative for Venezuela says Canada and the U.S. are strategizing on how
to move the European Union toward imposing sanctions on the Nicolás Maduro
regime.
"We both agreed that it
would be really helpful if the EU would follow Canada and the U.S. in imposing
sanctions on the Maduro regime," said Elliott Abrams in an interview on
CBC News Network's Power & Politics.
"Europe is a kind of
playground for people from the regime and their families — where their money
is, they have houses there, they live the high life there — which is really
disgraceful. So we strategized a bit about how, with the help of the Latin
American democracies, to move the EU in that direction," Abrams told guest
host Katie Simpson.
When asked for comment, Global
Affairs Canada did not directly address the remarks made by Abrams.
"Canadian government
officials discussed how Canada and the U.S. can work with the broader
international community to return democracy to the people of Venezuela,"
said Barbara Harvey, a spokesperson for Global Affairs.
"For some time, the Lima
Group has been engaging its partners around the world in support of sanctions
and other measures to pressure the Maduro regime," said Harvey.
Abrams was in Ottawa Thursday
to meet with Canadian officials ahead of next week's meeting on Venezuela in
Lima.
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